i feel a lot of obama supporters i talk to are somewhat resigned. they mean it but they're resigned. the romney people in the past six weeks have gone from i am anti-obama-- therefore, i'm for romney-- to i like romney. they have become very pro-romney. >> that's what the 51st debate idid. you look at the national expose they're tied. if the challenger and incumbent are tied, you'd rather be the challenger. then you look at the state polls, and it doesn't seem to be that picture at all. and i think some of the state polls are badly skewed. i mean, terror one out the other day that had a democratic advantage of nine points in ohio. if that's really true, ohio would be vermont, and no one would ever campaign in ohio. it wouldn't be a battleground state. >> schieffer: let's take a quick break here and we'll come back to this in a minute. infrastructure, construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron's putting more than $8 billion dollars back in the u.s. economy this year. in pipes, cement, steel, jobs, energy. we need to get the whee